Event Details

Hume has a vibrant, multi-cultural and abundant food history. But our growing population, rapidly changing environment and fast-paced lives have significantly reduced our ability to produce and access healthy affordable food. In order to build a future for Hume in which we can all thrive, we need to ensure that healthy and sustainable food is accessible and affordable for all.

In cities and towns all around the world residents, local businesses, community organisations, government and social entrepreneurs are coming together to build better food futures. By setting up community gardens, farmer’s markets, food hubs, school programs, food swaps, social enterprises and other innovative initiatives, they are building stronger communities, improving the health and wellbeing of residents, growing the local economy and laying solid foundations for the future.

With Doing Something Good we’re bringing together producers, distributors, retailers, community organisations, schools, service providers and Hume residents looking to shape a better food future for Hume.

Join us to discuss growing, making, distributing, selling and eating healthy and sustainable food, and how we might tackle local challenges and tap into available opportunities to build a thriving local food economy, reduce food waste and improve our health and wellbeing.

The conversations we document and the insights that are captured will contribute to the development of Hume City Council food policy.

THE PROGRAM

The Hume Food Summit program has been designed to be informative and inspiring. Participants will have the opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, insights and knowledge and have the kind of conversations that really matter.

Nick will be joined on the day by five other special guest speakers giving seven minute Lightning Talks sharing their experience, insights and inspiration from the work they are doing toward a food system that is healthy, sustainable and fair. Confirmed speakers include:

At the Hume Food Summit participants will have the unique opportunity to lead Open Space sessions. In the afternoon there will be three rounds of participant led sessions, with four 45 minute sessions being run in each time slot – a total of 12 sessions. Early in the day we’ll open up a ‘market’ for participants to propose a topic and the type of session they would like to lead – it might be a presentation, conversation, workshop or planning discussion. Read more about Open Space Technologies here.

You will also get to meet exhibitioners from the following projects and organisations:

Tuesday, 15 July 2014 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (AEST)

Organiser

Doing Something Good

Who we are

We are a growing collective of passionate and socially innovative professionals with cross-disciplinary skills and cross-sector experience working with diverse organisations and communities to address our most pressing social and environmental issues.

Our vision is to develop a collaborative community of practice, and build impactful and resilient networks of local and global communities building better futures for all, together.

What we do

We connect people and organisations doing something good from across Australia and around the world through innovative events and online social networks.

We offer learning and development programs for those working to build better futures to grow their capability, increase their effectiveness and scale their collective impact.

We work with not-for-profit organisations, government agencies, social enterprises and community groups to co-create campaign and communications strategies with positive social and environmental outcomes.We co-design and facilitate implementation of collaborative community-based projects that harness the potential of emerging technologies, systems and networks for doing something good.

Founded by 2011 Melbourne Social Entrepreneur of the Year, David Hood, Doing Something Good is a social enterprise investing in Melbourne-based community initiatives including Collaboratory Melbourne and the Gathering Unconference.